For me Lemmy was my gateway to the rest of the Fediverse. I can say I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer the engagement feels more real and over all it’s a better vibe. Here’s to 2 more everyone!

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[–] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 2 days ago (6 children)

So you're from the first reddit exodus (third party apps ban) in 2023 like me.

[–] Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.

[–] lundi@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago

PieFed has wikis and flairs for communities, Feed feature similar to how people can create their own custom feeds on Bluesky and Topics feature to browse content by subject, you can filter posts by keywords (Lemmy has it too but not on the default interface), warning label by the side of the name of people with too many negative karma/points/reputation to make it easier to spot trolls and some other fun things if you ever want to try it out although theres no mobile app for iOS afaik yet if thats a dealbreaker for you, but theres for android https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd/

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I also left when Apollo went down! The grass is much greener here if you ask me.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Same. No Apollo no Reddit. Haven't been back except to delete my account a few weeks later.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too

[–] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 days ago

I'm in the same boat here, not regretting it at all that I moved on.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you're having fun, I guess.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's why I'm here! :D

The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez's game and start charging for usage.

So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It's not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it's swipe gestures aren't as intuitive—but it's close and still better than paying to use reddit.

Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked...

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Is there more than one exodus now? I haven't been keeping track.

[–] lundi@piefed.social 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

AFAIK there was another exodus after they announced to be training AI based on Reddit content, another when they went public, another for starting heavily censoring more the platform (some people a while ago were getting banned just for saying Luigi or upvoting posts with it)

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had no idea they went public

[–] lundi@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

TheVerge covered it nicely

[–] lucelu2@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

I don't know if I was part of any major purge or not... I had some temp bans from a bot and then finally a permanent one, just expressing a wish for some blood clot to break free. I mean, it was way less expressive than other posts but I was marked for exit due to violence?!. I felt sad. I deleted an account, made another and then got re-banned within 24 hrs for no specific post, just for trying to overcome the ban... then I did a bit of research and honestly decided they suck, I don't need them and life offers better platforms. I hate this current internet shitification level though. The way I was treated... well, I kind of understand why people decide to be trolls as a lifestyle behavior. I am not a troll though... just a bit rowdy and irreverent.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There was a smaller (?) one a few months ago when reddit started punishing people for upvoting content that went against their ToS.

Edit: here's an article.

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[–] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Congrats! This is definitely a better place than reddit.

4 years over here for me, when lemmy.ml was pretty much the only option.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

4 years wow, so you must really remember the more quiet times. Even just in the last 1 to 2 years it's got so much busier.

[–] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Yes, it was pretty quiet, but I feel the quality was always pretty good, even from the beginning.

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 days ago

Happy lemon cake day!

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

2 years is coming up for me shortly. I realized not too long ago that I’ve always been interested in Reddit alt. I signed up to… volt? I forgot the name, but the users were awful so I didn’t stick around. I’m glad lemmy worked out.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah voat was pretty much nazi central

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

Wow, thanks for the memories. I waded through the Nazis to get my shitposts on Voat, now I wade through the tankies to get my shitposts here. Reality is a wild and magical thing, isn't it?

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you recall the year?

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

The wiki article says it was up from 2014 to the end of 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yes! Voat… anyway. Grateful for lemmy.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.

I've not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I'm looking for something in particular now.

Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.

[–] Goten@piefed.social 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

i already got banned once, so its really THE reddit expirience. xD

[–] lundi@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

PieFed becoming a lot more akin to an evolved Reddit than Lemmy lately with the recent updates

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Is that a positive or native opinion of PieFed? I’m genuinely curious since I’ve never really scrolled through PieFed

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[–] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Wow. Same here. Haven't logged on since then either. Although I do browse r/printsf in my laptop still... Fediverse is the shit

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

2 years for me as well!

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 7 points 2 days ago

Happy cake day Dave

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Geez that was a quick two years

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Almost two years for me too. Wow, time flies.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 8 points 2 days ago

Me too. Happy 2 years everyone!

[–] Blaze@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

Happy 2 years!

[–] don@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Happy 2-year! Damn, I’ll coming up on my 2y in a few weeks. Time flies, and I don’t even remember much about xhitter and reddit anymore.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

hey me too! All the best!

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Two years for me, too. But I disagree that it's nicer than on Reddit. The way Lemmy works fosters the development of cliques. Also, with much fewer users it makes it so that 'power' users wind up having a weird cult-like following that boosts their posts/comments and suppresses anyone who dares to point out when those people mistreat other people and/or break the rules that are clearly applied selectively.